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“Victor helped us out quickly by setting up observability in our Kubernetes clusters. Highly recommended.”

Jouke·Comper

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Scope & Architecture

End-to-End

Full Project Delivery

Cloud Native

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Our services

From architecting the cloud estate to building the applications that run on it. We take technical ownership from scope to production, so your team can focus on the product itself.

Observability & Monitoring

Installation and tuning of observability pipelines for your infrastructure and applications, from OpenTelemetry instrumentation in your code to multi-cluster monitoring in one place

We install and tune a monitoring stack that fits your environment: Prometheus and Grafana, the full LGTM stack, or Datadog. Alerting fires on real conditions, and dashboards are built around the questions you ask during an incident. Where the gap is in the applications rather than the infrastructure, we instrument your code with OpenTelemetry: traces across service boundaries and metrics the application emits itself, vendor-neutral so the data outlives your current backend. Running more than one cluster, we centralise it into a single store with long-term retention, so there is one place to query instead of a dashboard per island.

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Kubernetes & Platform Operations

Cluster upgrades without downtime and GitOps delivery with Argo CD, so changing the platform stops being the thing everyone avoids

Kubernetes is rarely the problem by the time a cluster needs attention — the pods are running. What has accumulated is a platform nobody wants to change. We run the upgrade against a rollback path agreed in advance and leave a runbook for the next one, and move delivery to GitOps so promotion is a pull request and rollback is a revert.

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Observability& Monitoring

If a customer is the one telling you something's down, the monitoring already failed. Good observability is more than dashboards: it is the right signals at the right moment, without noise and without your team having to live inside a dashboard.

Request rate (req/s)

api-gateway92ms

data-ingestion67ms

queue-worker84ms

cache-layer18ms

Prometheus & GrafanaOpenTelemetryDatadog Cost ReductionSaaS to Self-Hosted MigrationThanos & Long-Term StorageAlerting StrategyLog ManagementSLO / SLA Tracking

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Customer Story

getcomper.ai

AI-powered code intelligence platform

Comper continuously analyses millions of lines of code to map risk, ownership, and software evolution. Their platform processes customer software repositories around the clock, so operational excellence and strong monitoring are essential.

Delivered

A full observability stack on Kubernetes: Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope and Grafana, with centralised storage and remote ingestion from multiple clusters
Grafana Alloy as a single OpenTelemetry agent, collecting full telemetry from every node
Long-term storage in S3 via Thanos, with cost-effective retention policies instead of paying to keep every metric at full resolution forever

Impact

Before this engagement the production platform had no observability, so infrastructure outages went unalerted. Now the team has direct visibility into how production actually behaves, and alerting fires on real conditions instead of staying silent, catching problems before they reach customers. Within weeks they found their own services were being OOMKilled regularly: container restarts nobody had been watching. Diagnosing and fixing it was theirs to do, once the problem was finally visible. The stack is operated by Comper's own team, and new services and clusters plug into it without a rebuild.

Jouke

Victor helped us out quickly by setting up observability in our Kubernetes clusters. The setup is highly available and Victor was very responsive during the whole process, and also available for quick finetuning and setting up extra alerts after the installation. Highly recommended.

Kubernetes & Platform Operations

Your platform runs. The problem is what happens when it has to change. We make upgrades routine and deployments reviewable, so the cluster stops being the thing everyone is afraid to touch.

RehearsedUpgrades proven off production

ReviewableEvery change is a pull request

ReversibleRollback is a reverted commit

Argo CDHelm & KustomizeTerraform & OpenTofuDeprecated API AuditsPod Disruption BudgetsExternal SecretsNode Pools & AutoscalingRKE2 & RancherEKS, GKE & AKS

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Engagements & Rates

Transparent pricing

Most work runs as a fixed-scope project, so the cost is clear before we begin. All prices exclude VAT.

Fixed-scope projects

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Observability Health Check

Free

A look at how your stack is doing today: signal-to-noise, alert hygiene, storage and cost. You get a written list of findings, ordered by what would help most. It is yours to keep and act on, whether or not we end up working together.

Telemetry pipeline and retention review
Alert and on-call hygiene review
Storage and cost review
Written findings, yours to keep

Monitoring Baseline

€6,5001 week

Prometheus, Grafana and alerting installed and tuned on a single Kubernetes cluster. One cluster, monitored properly, owned by your team afterwards.

Prometheus and Grafana installed and tuned
Golden-signal dashboards
Paging on real conditions
Handover session with your team

Production Observability Stack

€15,0003–4 weeks

A complete, production-grade observability platform on a single Kubernetes cluster: the stack we built for Comper. Metrics, logs, traces and profiles, with long-term storage and alerting your team owns afterwards.

Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope and Grafana
Grafana Alloy as unified OpenTelemetry collector
Long-term storage in S3 with downsampling
SLO-aligned alerting and team handover

Hourly rate

€125per hour, excl. VAT

For ongoing advice once we are working together.

Expertise & Approach

We work closely with your team to understand your technical landscape and business objectives, identifying key opportunities for growth. From there, we turn complexity into clarity, providing structured guidance and a clear, actionable path forward.

Available for flexible engagement models: embedded team augmentation for organizations seeking specialized expertise, or comprehensive end-to-end project delivery. Whether integrating as a technical team member or leading independent initiatives, the focus remains on delivering production-ready solutions that emphasize Infrastructure as Code, automation-first principles, and sustainable architecture.

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Victor Brinkhorst

Founder

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Collaboration built on expertise

Based in Zeist, we partner with organisations that value hands-on engineering and pragmatic solutions. We work alongside your team to design, build and operate scalable systems that fit your business.

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